Category Archives: Sports
Final Four, Baby!
I Love the Kansas Jayhawks, but…
I LOVE the Kansas Jayhawks. It is a great program. I know a lot of people don’t like their fans. I hope I’m not one of THOSE fans, but I love the Kansas Jayhawks.
However, I have a request of the selection committee (even though I know this will go unheeded): Please do NOT seed KU #1 in any bracket. They don’t deserve it. They have come this far because of a great coach who can pull out miraculous things from a team that just isn’t built for a championship run this year.
KU with a #1 seed is a death wish this year. They can’t handle that number. (The exception being 2008 when everyone thought they didn’t deserve it.) The reason is this: they get lazy.
In 2008, KU crushed North Carolina in the Final Four. The next year, North Carolina cruised EASILY to a national championship. Why? All their players came back for one purpose: to win the national championship. The loss to Kansas had motivated them. Every round of the tournament they CRUSHED their opponents.
Last year when KU was “supposed” to win it all, they collapsed. They got cocky with their number one seed. They felt they deserved it. They tanked early in the tournament. And what did the juniors who were leaders do? They bolted to the NBA.
I say put KU at a 2 seed. Make them mad. Disrespect them. THAT way they will NOT be comfortable and play with heart and passion and at least get to the second weekend of the tournament this year.
So, please, PLEASE do not give my Jayhawks a One Seed.
Thank you.
Whew!
For the last border battle game, this one was a good one! My Jayhawks came from 19 down to beat Mizzou in OT 87-86.
Bring This One Home, ‘Hawks!
It’s a FOOTBALL GAME
They play a football game, but when it is the Super Bowl somehow every commercial, every song, is a political statement or a controversy. Somewhere in the distant last sports used to be about the love of the game.
ROCK CHALK
I simply cannot resist this! I am proud of the KU Jayhawk basketball team.
Blood Sport
I was reading a New York Times front page on the web when this picture and article came up. It was on the hockey player (presumably the one in the black jersey) talking about head trauma. Go figure.
But that’s not what captured my attention. It was the kid on the right. The smile on his face watching two men beat each other to a bloody pulp…
Something turned in my stomach.
I am not a hockey fan, but I love football. The intense contact is something guys just seem to love.
But that picture, that smile, just seems to haunt me.
Metrodome Collapse
Doesn’t look like they’ll get that game in today!
Soccer… the “beautiful game”?
I watched Spain and the Netherlands in last Sunday’s World Cup Final. My love is baseball, but when the World Cup is on, I try and follow.
One comment I hear consistently after a World Cup Final from commentators is they wished the final had been more “beautiful” or some such phrase. They feel, somehow, the final didn’t give a great picture of soccer.
Not being acquainted with soccer, and completely baffled by this “off side” rule, I just want to know… what DOES make it a beautiful game if the final is NOT a beautiful game?
